HP Photosmart D110a Scanner Glass Replacement

Written By: Tim Wise

Comments: 6

HP Photosmart D110a Scanner Glass Replacement

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

Time Required

15 - 30 minutes

Introduction

It is suggested to attempt this guide with 2 or more people.

Required Tools

T-9 Screwdriver
Needle-Nose Pliers

Tools

Step 1

Pull down both front panels to open the printer. Lift the scanner flap upward by pulling down on it; there are two mouth pieces that need to be pulled down.
Adjust the flap covering the scanner upward, as shown.

Step 2

Pull the scanner flap gently away from the printer to release its two clips.

Step 3

Locate the three screws on top of the printer.
The orange circle shows a fourth screw located behind the power panel. Ignore this one for now, as directions to remove this screw are in Step 5.

Step 4

Using a T-9 screwdriver, remove the three screws from the printer's top.

Step 5

To remove the power button panel:
Reach inside the printer's front opening.
Press the small clip behind the power button.
A picture of the power button panel removed is provided to show the location of the clip that needs to be pressed.
Pull the panel out from right to left.

Step 6

Remove the fourth screw, which was covered by the power button panel.
Do not try and torque the screw from an angle. This will ruin the screw's head, and make it even more difficult to remove the screw. Only remove it as already described.
This screw is placed awkwardly. We found holding a T9 bit in a pair of needle nose pliers gave us enough leverage to pull it up.

Step 7

With a partner's help:
Have one person lift the hood 2-3 inches.
Have the other person disconnect the three cables from the motherboard (the green PCB) to the hood by gently pulling upward on them.
Remove the hood completely.

Step 8

Remove the single T-9 screw from the hood's underside, as shown.

Step 9

With the screw removed, separate the two pieces of the hood by lifting it vertically.
Only lift the the top piece enough so that there is no tension applied to the ribbon cables shown.
Carefully pull down the white ribbon cable through the top piece of the hood.

Step 10

Separate the hood pieces while keeping the black ribbon cable connected. Rest the scanner piece carefully to avoid stressing its ribbon cable.

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Step 11

The scanner glass is held down by one T-9 screw. Use a screw driver to remove the screw.

Step 12

Once the screw has been taken out, lift the glass covering from the bottom left corner as shown.
The other corner of the glass can now be lifted up as well. Use the two corners to lift up the whole scanner glass.

Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

5 comments

Very helpful guide, the scanner glass was dirty from inside, so the guide was able to give me clear instructions how to proceed with the openning. Thanks!

Alexandre Silva - 20/12/15

Very helpful in most ways. I needed to clean the inside of the glass because the ribbon cable was leaving a discoloration when traveling and showed up on my scanned documents. I actually did this solo and was fine until reassemble faze when the actual scanner bar would not stay in place to reassemble the two parts. I finally got it back together after much profanity and no small amount of patients. The next dilemma was the reassembly of top to bottom which was easily fixed with a small piece of duct tape holding The right side in place while reconnecting the two ribbon cables and the power connector. All is back together and working fine. My thanx to my God and to you for a successful fix.

keith mcguire - 19/11/17

I found that it was actually a T10 bit on mine as well and found when removing the 3 screws shown in red a 2” bit works best but with the one marked in orange under the power button a 1” if placed in the screw first then pulled forward slightly I was able to use a 1/4” drive screwdriver on a slight angle which made it much faster to remove that one screw. That being said, still a very helpful fix to a problem that was really frustrating me as I kept cleaning the top of the glass until I realized the problem was on the underside.

keith mcguire - 19/11/17

As an after thought, if it were me I would have designed the scanner portion so that less effort would be needed to clean both sides of the glass like screws or clips that can be accessed just by lifting the door on the top.

keith mcguire - 19/11/17

These instructions are very good and I was able to do this with my husbands help. With one except it doesn’t mention if the new scanner glass has a right side or a wrong side to it. Does it matter at all which side goes up and which side goes down?

Thank you

Bonnie

Yvonne Nielsen - 16/03/18